Well, we don't live together... if we did, I would have to put it somewhere else... she did made me put if off once, for a whole night! She likes the movies, though.

Yes, Mini, I agree Portuguese can have more festive or crazy aspects, but disagree with the slogans having some special qualities. Of course you can create slogans in any language, but the idea I was trying to present is how (since Hollywood exists) English sells itself as the coolest language, and it has actually became it.

I watched the first one only, on The Century of Self. It was quite good.

Beto, the global citizen is becoming yankeenized. Every class. In Brazil we even have this weird phenomena of people giving hollywoodian names to their children (mostly misspelled) that everybody knows and talks about.

The poor imitate the average yankee Joe. See the phenomenon of “sertanejo” wearing the same outfits of country music (and even opening “steak houses”). Soap operas, which are truly the bastion of Brazilian modern culture, are also slowly taking a hollywoodian shape (specially in the beginning and end chapters, since it is expensive). And Brazilian humor on TV is too taking the sitcom approach, with such series as “A Diarista” and that other one with Fernando Guimarães. And don’t let me start on Silvio Santos, who from the very beginning only copies yankee TV formulas, and his public persona is pretty much like Eddie Sullivan! So it seems you made the argument for me!

Of course we still have some big families, and this is a trend that is slow in changing, but we already started the culture of eating out, for example. I feel in my family that the older the people are, more they stay and eat with the family, the younger ones see family as another obligation besides study and work. Padrinho, by the way, is “godfather”, which we know mostly from the movie title. This is another thing, my family has some Italian heritage, and is a bit anti-americanized actually, and yet I see, in the last 20 years or so, slowly yankee little things creeping all over the place, even in the family.

Of course the wasp mentality I was talking about is for those who are reading me. Those who can’t read this are the global poor, like the ones victimized by Katrina. Not much difference either. But this is a process, it is not done. Nonetheless, our culture is being slowly fagocitated in the last 70 years, sure it is — even more than colonized for the last 500.

I agree this fagocitation is a power issure. And in fact, the English word “power” doesn’t sound a lot more powerful to you than “poder”? I’m not saying this is good, in fact I can see the tragedy in this, but the wave is way bigger than our feeble attempts to try to equalize those trends. The place who names all the buttons on all these gadgets we have around, whose names sound from that place, whose appearance reminds of that place, is the place which dominates. And, tragically or not, we are becoming this place also. If only we had the power to retain (and know) what is good in our culture, that would be fantastic. But few things will remain. Also, we don’t have lots of history. Sadder and more tragical still is the westernization of Japan or China, places who actually have a thousand or more years of tradition. We have maybe 200 years of Brazilian culture — on the other hand, it’s like a baby killed in the cradle.

So it is not incapacity to see the soft power, in fact, I am saying it is neither soft nor tacit. It is here, we can deny it, we have to work with it. Yes, I see people who still try to fight this as a little quixotesque. Yes, I'm pledging surrendering!

That's why I don’t think new laws for “protection” of the language would do any good. If you want Portuguese to live, you write something good in Portuguese. Something English-speaking people and people all over the world would crave to read in the original language. We have maybe a dozen such works. It is not enough to save a language in the long run. I don’t see hope for the Portuguese language. It is doomed to become, as many other languages such as Polish, Dutch, Serbian, Tibetan, an exotic curiosity in a few hundred years.

Man, those pics are in the Sangha section of the http://drolod:6080/dharma/photo/sanga/essencia%20do%20siddhi%202001/">dharma pics, inside the dharma directory. Since I only have pics of you in a dharma event, you ended up not being in the personal folder (it takes time to render those neat folders, too many dharma pics for my present processor to handle). But don't cry anymore, soon I'll rearrange things and you may well end up in my chosen-pics folder.

BTW, I don't index the comments yet. So, no Heidegger tags yet.

Hahaha, great comment, though you could have considered keeping it in english only.

Of course it is a good description for us, fake yogis. But there are worse situations, with people even more immune to the dharma than us. Lot's of them. We are just literate simpletons. Well, at least I am.

I haven't, but I wish I had.

The issue here is a peculiar one, it comes from a discussion I had with a kantian professor. The problem is to be able to prove, with basis on logic alone, that colour cannot exist independently. My teacher assumes it is impossible, or at least has not been done yet.

I think our scientific theories are coerent enough, and I believe the Embodied Mind may have some ideas about the cognitive part, but the problem here is metaphysics. If it is allowed, then any property that is at least logical can be ascribed to any independent structure. So the problem is the definition of "colour".

My biggest frustration is never to be able to read and fix everything I wrote.

Funny man? But you didn't even listened to the album, Pellizzari. Then you will laugh, I'm sure.

Philosophy makes it all so easy because now people think I'm doing something about my life. Something respectable. Poor fools! But it works.

Out of tune? You couldn't recognize a blue note even if it was inside your ear drum!

Strobidibidic Bro is certainly one of my finest achievements.

Sorry about translating and editing your comments. But posts in english must be commented in english.

So, please explain, the quote is not from "A confederacy"? I read it on Lord Ass' Stumble Upon.

"Vergonha na cara", outro dia comentei com alguém que soa sânscrito.

I can't. My mother works at the Prefeitura of Porto Alegre ...

Não tem orgulho não, é só nostalgia. Não queimei o filme do Vitor nada, porque as Lucianas são muitas independentemente do Vitor... e eu não gosto de tomar cerveja na Cidade Baixa mesmo, e tu já me arrastou para isto também.

Porcher, tu já é um usuário level-3 independentemente de usufruir disso ou não. E eu já assisti o episódio 2, melhor que o primeiro. Mas a expectativa foi muito grande e eu ainda não consegui ficar feliz com a nova season do curb.

Meu papo-cabeça é pura perda de tempo.

This is the point of the genitive, it estabilishes which substantive is the core of the phrase. In this case, because in "der wahren Gedanken" the "der" points out it is a genitive, "Gesamtheit" is the core, and it's to it that the verb must agree. (This is not my observation skills. We had some Tractatus in the last german class and the teacher made us aware of this strange situation.)

Ok, but the issue here are not really set theory (although I have put there that paragraph, but it was just to do a little name dropping). The issue is infinity and validity... you see, if you are not an intuitionist (that anyway doesn't work with infinity) it seems you have, forcibly, to accept infinity for validity to be possible.

Just 20 min. I think I fixed it (for this post yes, but...)

Never, well, now I don't intend to.

Eu uso a engine do ie com uma "skin" chamada "Avant Browser". Mas vou tentar ajustar tudo para Mozilla.

Que cerveja que nada, ruim e amarga (embora tenha gás!) — como aliás é o guaraná.

O melhor é seguir as orientações de Fabinca. Sou "pussy whipped".

As a matter of fact, Leone is quite unique in this even for past movies (although they really got faster, never they were as slow as Leone's). The commentarist talks a lot about this, how he took his time, and how the violence was so fast in comparison to the time he took to arrive in it. He even used the word "foreplay" to describe this.

Hey, for posts in english, please comment in english, otherwise, what's the point of me writting in english?

Waking Life is a better movie, but is somewhat annoying also, if you see the dialogs as not satirical — and I think Linklater didn't thought it that way (from his other movies). But sometimes I have a dream he was making fun of ALL those grandiloquences, then the movie gets so much better.

Até dá, mas é um desperdício, porque o filé grelhado é estupendo. Mas eu acharia que vale mesmo sem a carne. O problema é que se pode pegar um dia em que não tenha noque com fungi, e tenha massa com calabresa, algo assim. Algumas vezes tem tortei ao fungi, que é muito bom também.

Yes, I also think it will not happen, so we must have the eternal benefit of doubt to the tissue blobs.

You can click on its title, is the same. But I think I fixed it. It was the size of the layer of the sun above.

Quando eu era menino eu e meu primo passamos uma semana sendo ladrões de supermercado e da antiga loja Brasileiras. Daí nos pegaram.

Eu falei sobre isto no post em inglês sobre o "Crime e Castigo" porque eu acho que se algum carma primário difícil se manifesta, pode ser que esse tipo de pensamento — e eu cheguei a pensar em roubar, por um instante, mas pensei — venha a tomar mais força, como no caso do protagonista esfomeado, doente e perturbado (pela irmã estar casando por interesse para sustentá-lo), que com todo este carma primário, manifesta o carma secundário de matar. (Hey, não estou dizendo que uma coisa justifica a outra... estou dizendo que temos que estar treinados para praticar quando a situação fica realmente preta, e não só quando tudo está como estamos acostumados...)

Hmpf... só isto?

You don't get what? The whole show? The picture with the logo? My post? By the way, have you watched those episodes?

Eu tenho "A Copa". "Viajantes e Mágicos" só consegui dublado em Italiano, mas o Monge Ngawang prometeu que vai me enviar um VCD da Índia... vou enviar alguns para ele também.